Visit to ‘Dare’
Visit to ‘Dare’ Art experiential workshop by the Stillness Project for The High Range School A search for ‘value’ in contemporary society The High Range school children visited “Dare’ a school for the differently-abled, run by Tata Global Beverages in Munnar, in October 2016. For those at ‘Dare’ the joy of the journey they undertake […]
The virus attack
The virus attack Art experiential workshop by the Stillness Project for The High Range School Through our projects, we have been able to rekindle within the children of High Range School a genuine relationship with nature, which we believe is the only way to make them care passionately about nature and all its creatures, including […]
In and Out
In and Out As part of the ‘Stillnessandme’ project we decided to explore ‘Stillness’ through a painting commissioned for ‘Lahe Lahe.’ The students came with their ideas. They sketched, discussed, reflected and they wrote poems in an effort to enter and explore stillness for almost five months. The time period saw them moving deeper in, […]
Love Thy Labyrinth
Love Thy Labyrinth Walking the labyrinth is a meditative experience bringing the body mind and soul together. It aims to take the walker through several layers of his being starting from the physical body and culminating in the centre of the labyrinth, a space of godliness, and back. A seven ringed labyrinth will have seven […]
Alice out of Wonderland
Alice out of Wonderland Art Experiential Workshop – ABC Biennale Outreach Feb 2023 Alice in Wonderland is the fictional journey of a child at the cross roads, stepping into adolescence. Alice’s journey is about curiosity, innocence, vulnerability, logic and illogic, changing emotions, fear and authority, obstacles that arise, and the meaning of magic. Participants are […]
Whiskers
Whiskers Next to the wheezing refrigerator the clock ticking on a bare wall, my eyes spilling the scent of a feast, to the sudden nip of a shifting season. In them the anxious unveiling of a psalm as his lime green eyes embrace mine, as he licks the bony fish-head with care, as he picks […]
The Pr essence of Ab sense
The Pr essence of Ab sense in man My living room is from where I watch and I hearthe rain drenched, head bowed, fetal earth.A siren of cricket song in ecstasy emanates from her,her sighs punctuated with two little bird tweetsand a frog croak. Just two little bird tweetsand a frog croak, right here and […]
Culture- Matrix- Exploration-Art
Culture- Matrix- Exploration-Art The matrix is and will always be our home. A forgotten reality. Within us is the cell which itself is as astounding as they can get with their miraculous self-generating network. Also within and outside us is a delicately woven ecosystem. A sparkling interconnected web of life. Above us, the musical rhythm […]
I ordered a multilayered pudding
I ordered a multilayered pudding I am a chronicler of the mind. More of a plumber or a physician than a painter. Plumbing the depths, pricing out and erasing memory capsules, fixing the leaks, and relishing the taste of freedom, love, creativity, god particle…call it by whatever name, seems to be the goal. I am […]
വൃഥാ, നൃത്തമാടാട്ടെ , ചുമ്മാ!
വൃഥാ, നൃത്തമാടാട്ടെ , ചുമ്മാ! ആളുകൾ വരവായി. തെയ്യം കാണാൻ. വടക്കന്മാരുടെ തറവാട്ടു മുറ്റത്ത് ഞങ്ങളും ഇരിപ്പായി. അങ്ങിങ്ങായി കിടക്കുന്നു എന്ടെ ശരീരo- തെങ്ങിൻ കുരുത്തോലച്ചാർത്ത്, പാള, ലോഹം, മഷി, ചന്ദനം, മഞ്ഞൾ, കുങ്കുമം, അരി, കൌങ്ങിൻ തടികൾ, ചുവപ്പ് പട്ടുതുണികൾ, കടകം, തോട. മനസ്സിൻടെ ഭാരം മുടിയിലേന്തി മുഖവും മങ്ങി, പലരും നടക്കുന്നു. എന്നാൽ മനസ്സ് എന്തെന്നറിയാതെ വിശ്വാസത്തിന്ടെ കുളിർ കാറ്റിൽ കുട്ടികളൾ കൊതി തൊന്നും വിധം പാറിക്കളിക്കുന്നു. നാൽപ്പത്തൊന്ന് ദിവസത്തെ വ്രതത്തിന് ശേഷം എന്ടെ […]
